REPUBLIC REBORN

“When the age of Miracles lay faded into the distance as an incredible tradition, and even the age of Conventionalities was now old; and Man’s Existence had for long generations rested on mere formulas which were grown hollow by course of time; and it seemed as if no Reality any longer existed but only Phantasms of realities, and God’s Universe were the work of the Tailor and Upholsterer mainly, and men were buckram masks that went about becking and grimacing there,–on a sudden, the Earth yawns asunder, and amid Tartarean smoke, and glare of fierce brightness, rises Sansculottism, many-headed, fire-breathing, and asks: What think ye of me?”     -Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

Mindless insanity. And these are the people closing our businesses, handing over $4 trillion to the corporate elite, and adorning themselves with authoritarian power?

Unbelievable: “Rhode Island police began stopping cars with New York plates Friday. On Saturday, the National Guard will help them conduct house-to-house searches to find people who traveled from New York and demand 14 days of self-quarantine.”

Just a thought. But these deaths are never reported on the national news, therefore few care and no one panics.

With new research coming out of Oxford that predicts that up to half the population of the UK could have already been infected with COVID-19, suggesting that as few as one infected person in a thousand even needs hospitalization, it appears that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and we can finally disembark from this suicidal crazy train of mass hysteria. New York governor Cuomo is now backtracking on the “lock down” response, apparently coming to the reasonable conclusion that it’s been a pretty terrible idea, and that if anyone needs to isolate, it is the elderly, sick population for whom the virus pose a threat. Why was this not an option two weeks ago? Instead, the United States transformed almost overnight into a fear-paralyzed asylum, with the inmates unable to escape the doomsday headlines that corporate news and health agencies puked up on a regular basis. It triggered the greatest stock market crash in history, along with a series of the most bizarre, dystopian events ever to have been witnessed. The fact that it happened is grim enough, but that it occurred on so little information is haunting.

On very little data regarding COVID-19, world governments leaped gleefully into a yawning abyss, pulling their citizens and entire economies in with them, thereby threatening the world economy, peace, hundreds of millions of lives, and civilization itself in the process. And for the most part, citizens have allowed it to happen. We have cowered in abject terror at the endless stream of hyperbolic headlines that seemed to imply that Armageddon was at hand, and that we had better huddle with our toilet paper hoard and pray for a quick death.  And yet, what continues to be predicted is not happening. COVID-19 is spreading rapidly, yet all signs point to the relieving, albeit embarrassing, reality that most cases show very little in the way of symptoms. When headlines begin to appear like this, calm begins to return, and we begin to face uncomfortable truths about our nature as a species. The fundamental lesson to be learned by the COVID hysteria is that we as a species are prone to periodic bouts of mass hysteria.

But this descent into global mass hysteria was the most dangerous and destructive in history. The hysteria itself was apocalyptic, not the virus. The hysteria had the power to destroy civilization, not the virus. It’s a crucial lesson to learn from this insanity.

It is clear that our fear has the power to end us as a species. It’s like a loaded gun, embedded within our very nature, ready to spring forth with full fury, and spread itself to others, activating their own innate fear. And it can emerge at any time, and on no basis in reality whatsoever. And while this was by far the worst mania to hit the human race, it won’t be the last.

From The Week: 

“The Oxford research suggests the pandemic is in a later stage than previously thought and estimates the virus has already infected at least millions of people worldwide. In the United Kingdom, which the study focuses on, half the population would have already been infected. If accurate, that would mean transmission began around mid-January and the vast majority of cases presented mild or no symptoms.”

The mortality rate is going to plummet, and hopefully the hysteria will disappear.

Hat tip to Jim Meehan’s Facebook page for the article.

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.” – Agent K

Total, unlimited power and control over every aspect of life in the United States, and a population willingly granting this power and submitting to it. Two decades of terrorism propaganda never pulled us this deep into the totalitarian morass. The burning question is when will this power be relinquished, if ever? How long will what is effectively martial law be dragged out? At what point will the mainstream media stop publishing reckless, fearmongering headlines? COVID-19 is here to stay, yet far less dangerous than we are being led to believe? When will we accept it?

We are going to feel like fools in a year’s time.

From the New York Post: “Seriously sick coronavirus patients in New York state’s largest hospital system are being given massive doses of vitamin C — based on promising reports that it’s helped people in hard-hit China, The Post has learned.

Dr. Andrew G. Weber, a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, said his intensive-care patients with the coronavirus immediately receive 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C.

Identical amounts of the powerful antioxidant are then readministered three or four times a day, he said.”

Jimmy Dore covers the Biden’s latest live-streamed face plant:

The entertainment value of the upcoming Trump/Biden debates will be legendary.